Game apparatus.



P. J. MOGRATH & J. W. HALLOWELL.

ur NnRRIS PETERS CO.. PHG1U-LITHO.. WASHINGTDN. D. C.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.

PATRICK 1T. MCG-BATH AND JOI-IN .W. HALLOWELL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

GAME APPARATUS.

To all whom it may concern: -f f Be it known that we,fPA'rR1oK J. MC- GRATH and JOHN W'. HALLowELL, citizens of 'the United States, and residents of 5 Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented vcertain newl and useful Improvements in Game Apparatus, of which the followingisv a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in game apparatus and its main object is to provide improved mechanism for casting small projectiles to varying distances, and another Objectis to provide means for keep ing count of the throws in the game.

The means we employ for accomplishing these results, together with full details of our improved game apparatus, are illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,- v

Figure 1 is a side elevation ofthe preferred form of our invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a front eleva-v tion of the same. Fig. A is a side elevation of a modified form of our invention. Fig.

1 5 is a side elevation of the same.

Like characters of reference designate like parts in all figures of the drawing.

In Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the numeral 2 des- -ignates the frame of the apparatus, said frame being of rectangular outline and pro vided with flanges 3. A spout l is fastened to the frame at one end, and extends upward for some distance, and isI also inclined several degrees from the vertical, so as to lean toward the central portion of the apparatus.

A horizontal member 5 is supported by the spout a at one end, and connected by struts 6 to the frame at the other end. Primary projectile receivers 7 are carried by the member 5, and any convenient number can be provided, but five is the preferred number. Said projectile receivers are cylindricalr in section and their height is two or three times their diameter. They are open atthe top and provided with inclined bottoms 8, and outlets 9, so that spherical projectiles will rcll out through said outlets.

A lever support 10 is mounted on lthe frame 2, and a finger lever 11 is pivoted thereon by the pivots 12. The free end 13 of the lever is inserted into an opening lll in the spout 4, yand normally rests in the full line position, as shown in Fig. l.

Specification of Letters'Patent. Patnted NOV., 10, 1`914 Application led September 8, 1914. VSerial No. 860,589. 1 v

At one side of theprimary projectile receivers, and on the lower part of the frame, immediately under the outlets 9 vare secondary projectile receivers 15, which are rectangular compartments, open at the top end 13 of the finger lever 11`.'The player,

thenpresses down the finger end 16 ofthe z lever, causing the projectile to fly upward through the spout and emerging, takes a curved path into one of the projectile receivers, if the proper skill is exercised. Greater skill of course is required rto score the higher numbers and not throw beyond the last receiver. As the projectile enters one ofthe primary` receivers and reaches the inclined bottom, it passes out through the outlet 9 into the secondary receiver beneath, on which is indicated the properr score number.

In the modified form of our invention illustrated in Figs. 4. and 5, the base 2, spout 4L, lever support 10, `lever .11, and pivots 12 are like those in the form just described.

The secondary projectile receivers are omitted however, and the primary receivers are supported on a platform 2O held up by side supports 21. A slide 22 is fastened to. thelower face of the platform 20 by means of clips 23. Said slide is provided with openings 24, and the projectile receivers are provided with bottom openings of the same size, so that when the slide is movedy end- .wise of 'the platform a short distance the openings 24- will come opposite the openings in the bottom of the said projectile receivers, allowing any projectiles in the receivers to fall through, down onto the frame. The projectile receivers are marked with the proper numbers for scoring, and the game is played with this form in the same manner as with the first described construction.

We claim 1. In a game apparatus, the combination of an inclined spout, and a finger lever pivoted below the spout and adapted to forcel loo projectiles through the spout to varying distances. i

2. In a game apparatus, the combination of a frame, an inclined spout mounted on the said frame, a finger lever pivoted on said frame and adapted to force projectiles through said spout, to varying distances, and two or more projectile receivers mounted on the frame, each at a different distance from the said spout.

3. In a game apparatus, the combination of a frame, an upwardly inclined spout mounted on said frame, a finger lever pivoted on the frame and adapted to force projectiles upward through said spout by depressing1 the finger end of said lever, and two or more projectile receivers mounted on the frame in line with spout and the lever, and at different distances from the said spout.

In a game apparatus, the combination of a iframe, an upwardly inclined spout mounted on said frame, a. linger lever pivoted on said frame and adapted to force projectiles upward through said spout to varying distances, and two or more projectile receivers mounted on said frame, each at a different distance from the spout and Jeach having an opening, at the top and a lower projectile outlet.

5. In a game apparatus, the combination of a frame, an inclined spout mounted on said frame, a finger lever pivoted on said frame and adapted to force pro jectiles upward through said spout to varying distances, a plurality oit' primary projectile receivers mounted on the :frame in line with the spout and the lever, each at a different distance from the spout and each provided with an inclined bottom and a lower outlet, and a plurality of secondary projectile receivers located so as -to receive the projectiles from the primary receivers.

6. In a game apparatus, the combination of a frame, an inclined spout mounted near one end of said frame, a finger lever having one end located in the lower part of the spout, having a finger portion near the other end of the frame, and pivoted at an intermediate point, and two or more projectile receivers mounted on the frame above the lever, in line with each other and the spout.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 28th day of August, A. D. 1914.

PI'XTRICK J. MCGRATH. JOHN 7. HALLOVVELL. Witnesses:

W. R. VARNER, CHARLES D. Kino.

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Washington, D. C. 

